England women 259 for 8 (Beaumont 49, Brunt 45*, Villani 3-42, Beams 2-44) beat Australia women 256 for 8 (Perry 70, Lanning 40, Hartley 2-31, Brunt 2-42) by 3 runs
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Katherine Brunt followed up an unbeaten 43-ball 49 with figures of 2 for 42 in nine overs © Getty Images
On July 24, 1993, England beat Australia by 43 runs in a Women’s World Cup match in Guildford. Between that match and this one, close to 24 years later, the two sides had met six times in the World Cup, with one meeting ending in a no-result and Australia winning the other six.
England’s wait ended in Bristol, after they shaded a roller-coaster contest that went down to the last ball. It came down to Jess Jonassen needing to hit the last ball for six. She slogged Jenny Gunn, and for a moment – that moment between contact and TV cameras catching up with the ball’s trajectory – it seemed as if she might have won it for Australia. She hadn’t middled it, though, and the ball landed three-fourths of the way to the boundary, a few yards to the left of the fielder at deep midwicket.
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Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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